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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is another thing the London City Mission did?
(a) Told the police when there was crime in an area.
(b) Watched that people were not taxed unfairly.
(c) Helped pregnant, unwed women.
(d) Encouraged residents to attend church.

2. Who were most of the street folk Mayhew discussed?
(a) Entertainers.
(b) Prostitutes.
(c) The Homeless.
(d) The Insane.

3. What were buskers?
(a) People who hawk wares.
(b) People who are insane but harmless.
(c) Street performers.
(d) People who are only temporarily homeless and perfectly sane.

4. What did a 19-year-old newspaper printer like?
(a) Men.
(b) Expensive dresses and jewelry.
(c) To have more than she needed.
(d) To eat and drink extravagantly.

5. What did the father of the magician that Mayhew interviewed do for a living?
(a) He was a constable.
(b) He was a policeman.
(c) He worked in the Customs Office.
(d) He was a mayor of a small town.

6. What was one thing the mission about which Hemyng writes intended to do?
(a) Increase marriage.
(b) Increase the saving of prostitutes to the Lord.
(c) Reduce abandoned children.
(d) Reduce blasphemy.

7. What must someone who is physically or mentally unable to work do?
(a) Be taken care of by the government.
(b) He says he does not know what should be done about them.
(c) Find some small thing of which they are capable.
(d) Rely upon others or charity.

8. What did Mayhew call the fact that many would rather starve than accept charity?
(a) Stupid.
(b) Admirable.
(c) Ignorant.
(d) Stubborn.

9. To what does Nemyng attribute the spread of vice in Europe?
(a) The establishment of so many splinter groups from the Catholic church.
(b) The French Revolution.
(c) He has no idea what is the cause.
(d) The advent of new social mores among the young.

10. What puppeteer did Mayhew interview?
(a) His own brother.
(b) A friend who went to school with him when he was a boy.
(c) His own cousin.
(d) A former gentleman's footman.

11. What group did the magician join to get away from home?
(a) The Circ Ole.
(b) The Londondarry Circus.
(c) The Greenwich Fair.
(d) The P.T. Barnum European Circus.

12. What does Mayhew say humans must do?
(a) Be good stewards of the animal kingdom.
(b) Work for a living.
(c) Be good stewards of the plant kingdom.
(d) Help one another.

13. Who is the author of the section on Suppression of Vice and Crime?
(a) Father Joseph McDougal.
(b) Professor John Dreyfuss.
(c) Rev. William Tuckniss, B.A.
(d) Mayhew.

14. To what may the discrepancy between the police estimate and Bishop Ryan's estimate be attributed?
(a) A difference in how each defines prostitution.
(b) The police would downplay it in order to not have to arrest so many women.
(c) Hemyng has no idea as to why there is such a discrepancy.
(d) Bishop Ryan would exaggerate in order to rile up the good Christian people.

15. How are Irish families described by Mayhew?
(a) As drunken oafs.
(b) As the unfortunate recipients of unwarranted prejudice.
(c) As sloe-eyed teetotalers.
(d) As filthy, diseased, lazy but grateful beggars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author call a place where women have sex for drugs?

2. What seemed to be part of the motivation for a street person to perform?

3. What were most common in Whitechapel, Shadwell, Spitalfields?

4. How did she pay for her desires?

5. How many were professors and artists?

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